You Can’t Read on the New MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar (Yet), But You Can Play Doom (video)

Apple disappointed many power users when it opted for the cool-looking Touch Bar as the featured new Macbook Pro feature rather than faster CPUs and more RAM, but it's not all bad.

iOS developer Adam Bell has figured out how to get Doom running on the Touch Bar. It's not exactly easy to play the game on the 2170 x 60 resolution display which replaced the Macbook Pro's function keys, but as you can see in the following video the hack does work.

As you can see from the video, the screen real estate is a bit cramped. Still, it is playable — but just barely.

In a second, more usable hack, Bell also displayed Doom's status bar on the Touch Bar. That certainly fit a lot better on the strip of screen real estate but it is a rather pointless hack given the high resolution screen on the new Macbook Pro.

But then again, "a rather pointless hack" also describes the Touch Bar itself, so in a way Bell's work is fitting adaptation of useless hardware.

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Nate Hoffelder is the founder and editor of The Digital Reader:"I've been into reading ebooks since forever, but I only got my first ereader in July 2007. Everything quickly spiraled out of control from there. Before I started this blog in January 2010 I covered ebooks, ebook readers, and digital publishing for about 2 years as a part of MobileRead Forums. It's a great community, and being a member is a joy. But I thought I could make something out of how I covered the news for MobileRead, so I started this blog."